<p>^^ What the…?</p>
<p>^Hahaha yep. All the publicity is going to get attention of Al Queda CC posters ya know. Or if Osama Bin Laden’s son gets rejected from Harvard. </p>
<p>I’m telling you, it’s goodbye Harvard.</p>
<p>By 2050, USN&WR will have successfully tweaked their formula to the point that NO public universities will rank in the top 249. UC-Davis, UC-Irvine and UCSB will all tie for 250th.</p>
<p>Northeastern has jumped 81 spots since 2001. At that rate, they’ll be the top school in 2050! jk. </p>
<p>I don’t think the rankings will be signficantly different, but for a few exceptions such as NU and the other schools that are making significant leaps.</p>
<p>It’s all about how much $/student is available at a school.</p>
<p>Public flagships will continue to drop until budgets turn around … Berkeley is the highest Public currently at #22, UCLA slipped back to #25 this year. Unless and until public flagships can develop much, MUCH larger private Endownment/student, they will have increasing difficulty competing for the best students (merit and/or need based aid), best professors, best offices and facilities, best class availability and small class size that more $/student schools can.</p>
<p>This changes of course at the Ph.D. level where the financing tends to come from research grants, and not so much from the coffers of the State Government. At the Ph.D. level, Public Flagships will hold on to the quality as long as the federal and industry research dollars keep coming in.</p>
<p>I can see the model of the future being Private Undergrad, Public Ph.D.</p>